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This device that connects multiple devices in a network, allowing them to communicate by forwarding data packets to their intended destinations. It operates primarily at the data link layer of the OSI model, using MAC addresses to direct traffic efficiently.
What is a switch?
This tool is used to crimp cables and secure an rj45 head onto an ethernet cable.
What is a crimper?
This s word describes something that is done or said in a natural and often sudden way and without a lot of thought or planning. It can describe a person who does things that have not been planned but that seem enjoyable and worth doing at a particular time. (4 syllables)
What is spontaneous?
WAN stands for this.
What is Wide Area Network?
This person was known for his vision in personal computing and product design, best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. This person was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.
Who is Steve Jobs?
This is a standardized connector used primarily for Ethernet networking, allowing devices to connect to a Local Area Network (LAN). It features eight pins and is commonly used with twisted pair cables, providing high-speed data transmission.
What is an RJ45 Connector?
This tool lets us trace lines by using a tone generator that you connect to an ethernet line, and tracing it with a probe that lets you hear the tone.
What is a Fox and Hound?
This f word means to play and move about happily. (2 syllables)
What is frolic?
DHCP stands for this.
What is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol?
A pioneer in the microcomputer revolution in the 1970s and 1980s, this person co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend, with a net worth in 2025 of 115.1 billion dollars.
Who is Bill Gates?
This device is a networking device that forwards data packets between different computer networks, managing traffic by directing packets to their intended IP addresses. It connects multiple networks, allowing devices to share an Internet connection efficiently.
What is a router?
This tool is an electronic device used to verify the electronic connections in a cable.
What is a cable tester?
This o word means to exclude them from a group by the agreement of the group's members. (3 syllables)
What is ostracize?
RAM stands for this.
What is Random Access Memory?
This person is a British computer scientist who worked for CERN, credited with inventing the World Wide Web.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
This is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on configurable security rules. It typically establishes a barrier between a trusted network and an untrusted network, such as the Internet.
What is a firewall?
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We use this software tool to create images and reimage machines.
What is Macrium Reflect?
This f word is the quality or state of being faithful to a person, such as a partner or spouse, or a thing, such as one’s country. It can also refer to accuracy or exactness in details, or the degree to which an electronic device (such as a television) accurately reproduces its effect (such as sound or picture). (4 syllables)
What is fidelity?
ROM stands for this.
What is Read-Only Memory?
This person is a Finnish programmer who created the Linux kernel.
Who is Linus Torvalds?
This is a standardized telecommunication connector primarily used for connecting analog devices like landline telephones and modems. It typically has six positions but usually only utilizes four pins for transmitting voice signals.
What is an RJ11 Connector?
This physical tool lets you change the password of accounts on a computer by plugging it into your computer and booting into it.
What is a password cracker?
This A word describes something that is not planned or chosen for a particular reason, is not based on reason or evidence, or is done without concern for what is fair or right. (4 syllables)
What is arbitrary?
CMOS stands for this.
What is Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor?
In 1976, this person co-founded Apple Computer with his early business partner Steve Jobs. Through his work at Apple in the 1970s and 1980s, he is widely recognized as one of the most prominent pioneers of the personal computer revolution.
Who is Steve Wozniak?